A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

Where to look if you've lost your mind?

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

We have two lives, the life we learn with and the life we live with after that. Suffering is what brings us toward happiness.

Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.

The idea is to get the pencil moving quickly.

Completed, most lives were alike in stages of living-joys, celebrations, crises, illusions, losses, sorrows.